05 October 2012

Plastic materials are the most common debris in the oceans all over the world; they have horrific impacts on marine wildlife and on the whole ecosystems. Different creatures get entangled in plastics and drown or ingest toxins. Plastics pose a threat to the health of the food chain, while oceans are silently choking on our plastic waste, as shown in this insightful video about the Marine Debris Survey, a world first study of the plastics around the coastlines.